The university's former athletic director -- whose contract was allowed to expire in the wake of the Gerald Sandusky scandal -- was raised in a house across from Old Beaver Field at Penn State.

Decades later, in 2001, Curley would oversee the renovations and expansion of the university's Beaver Stadium. The 1976 Penn State graduate also played for Joe Paterno, joining the team as a walk-on before his career was sidelined by injuries.

After graduating from Penn State with a bachelor's degree in health and physical education, Curley served as a graduate assistant on the Penn State coaching staff and became Paterno's first full-time recruiting coordinator in 1978.

He was named an assistant athletic director in 1982 and promoted to associate athletic director in 1992. Curley was elevated to athletic director a year later. He held that post for almost two decades, until he was placed on administrative leave after being charged with perjury and failing to report to authorities allegations of illegal sexual contact between Sandusky and a minor.

Curley and former senior vice president Gary Schultz both directly received McQueary's account of an apparent shower room assault by Sandusky in the Lasch Football Building in February 2001. They stand accused of putting others of Sandusky's sexual abuse victims at risk by agreeing, after reviewing McQueary's report, to attempt to handle the allegations internally.

Prosecutors said that none of the Penn State administrators who were told of the allegation reported it to law enforcement, childcare and youth services or made any effort to locate or identify the child.